Blogs About Blogging For Money - An Accurate Representation?
There are a fair few blogs about blogging for money around at the moment and I was thinking the other day; are they actually a true representation of your average profitable blog? I think the answer is no. Point in case: Mike’s Money Making Mission - certainly an interesting and informative blog to say the least, he has been “trying to see if I can make money on the Internet using only free blogs and with no capital outlay.” and thus far has actually made a fair bit of money, £688.78 to be precise.
The thing is though, his blog is about making money with a blog, which is actually why he is making money. Confused? Let me try to explain. His main blog topic is effectively a case study of making money with a blog, but he is using the same blog for this. So essentially, it is more than likely that the majority of his traffic is from people interested in making money with their own blogs. Therefore, his blog is not an accurate representation of an average blog and any money made cannot really be relied upon as an indication of the money making potential of the average blog.
Now, just to clarify, I’m not saying that an average blog cannot make the same amount of, or even more money than Mike’s blog, I’m merely saying that blogs of this nature are easily misinterpreted as a representation of the general market, when in fact most average blogs are not ones with this subject matter.
Did that make sense?!
Good point. I kinda throw my blog into that “average blog” category. I occsasionally write abot making money with your blog. But I think I could make a noteworthy amount of money doing what I’ve been doing. But I see your point (those guys have ad banners, affiliate links, reviews, etc).
On another note, I couldn’t find any contact information for you on your blog, but I wanted you to know that your blog has been chosen to compete in my Bloggers Tournament. I hope you don’t mind. Best of luck.
http://www.derrich.com/2007/03/19/2007-bloggers-tournament-take-2/
Cheers Derrich! Sorry about the contact info, I’ve been meaning to add a contact me form for a while, will do that today. Great idea by the way!
Firstly many thanks for the link!
What you say does make sense! I do think, however, that money can be made from most blogs, providing they have a definite theme. Mine is obviously about money making but it could be about anything that would attract like minded readers.
If the ads, affiliate programs etc. are relative to the subect matter they should get clicks - subject to getting sufficent traffic. Thus money can be made.
It’s going to be more difficult to make money, though, if the blog is of a general nature with varying themes. It then doesn’t have a defined core of readers to ’sell’ to. But there again, it depends on traffic. Lots of traffic, no matter what, will make money.
Interesting post!
Best wishes,
Mike.
Thanks for stopping by Mike! I do agree that, provided there is quality content, traffic is key to making money, but even with a lot of traffic a low quality blog will make little or no money, as readers won’t hang around.